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Fall 2018 Digital Humanities Reading Group Schedule

We are pleased to announce the schedule for the Fall 2018 Digital Humanities Reading Group. If you’re following along at home, we’ve set up a hypothes.is group for annotations.

 

September 11 & 12: Digital Humanities in the Popular Press

Allington, Daniel, Sarah Brouillette, and David Golumbia. “Neoliberal Tools (and Archives): A Political History of Digital Humanities.” Los Angeles Review of Books, May 1, 2016.

Marche, Stephen. “Literature Is Not Data: Against Digital Humanities.” Los Angeles Review of Books, October 28, 2012.

 

September 25 & 26: Mapping

Edelstein, Dan, Paula Findlen, Giovanna Ceserani, Caroline Winterer, and Nicole Coleman. “Historical Research in a Digital Age: Reflections from the Mapping the Republic of Letters Project.” The American Historical Review 122, no. 2 (April 2017): 400–424.

Gregory, I.N., and Patricia Murrieta-Flores. “Geographical Information Systems as a Tool for Exploring the Spatial Humanities.” In Doing Digital Humanities: Practice, Training, Research, edited by Constance Crompton, Richard J. Lane, and Raymond George Siemens. Routledge, 2016.

Theibault, John. “Visualizations and Historical Arguments.” In Writing History in the Digital Age, edited by Kristen Nawrotzki. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2013.

 

October 9 & 10: Editions

Stauffer, Andrew. “My Old Sweethearts: On Digitization and the Future of the Print Record.” In Debates in the Digital Humanities, edited by Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2016.

Earhart, Amy E. “Can Information Be Unfettered? Race and the New Digital Humanities Canon.” In Debates in the Digital Humanities, edited by Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2016.

Pierazzo, Elena. “Textual Scholarship and Text Encoding.” In A New Companion to Digital Humanities, 307–21. Wiley-Blackwell, 2015.

 

October 23 & 24: Textual Analysis

Brett, Megan R. “Topic Modeling: A Basic Introduction.” Journal of Digital Humanities 2, no. 1 (April 8, 2013).

Schmidt, Benjamin M. “Plot Arceology: A Vector-Space Model of Narrative Structure.” In Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE International Conference on Big Data, 1667–72. Washington, DC: IEEE Computer Society, 2015.

Jockers, Matthew. “A Novel Method for Detecting Plot.” Matthew L. Jockers (blog), June 5, 2014.

Jockers, Matthew. “Revealing Sentiment and Plot Arcs with the Syuzhet Package.” Matthew L. Jockers (blog), February 2, 2015.

Swafford, Annie. “Problems with the Syuzhet Package.” Anglophile in Academia: Annie Swafford’s Blog (blog), March 2, 2015.

Swafford, Annie. “Continuing the Syuzhet Discussion.” Anglophile in Academia: Annie Swafford’s Blog (blog), March 7, 2015.

Swafford, Annie. “Why Syuzhet Doesn’t Work and How We Know.” Anglophile in Academia: Annie Swafford’s Blog (blog), March 30, 2015.

 

November 6 & 7: Critique

Liu, Alan. “Where Is Cultural Criticism in the Digital Humanities?” In Debates in the Digital Humanities, edited by Matthew K. Gold. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2012.

Gibbs, Fred. “Critical Discourse in Digital Humanities.” Journal of Digital Humanities 1, no. 1 (March 9, 2012).

Drucker, Johanna. “Humanistic Theory and Digital Scholarship.” In Debates in the Digital Humanities, edited by Matthew K. Gold. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2012.

 

November 20 & 21: Professional/isms

Braunstein, Laura. “Open Stacks: Making DH Labor Visible.” dh+lib (blog), June 7, 2017.

Flanders, Julia. “Time, Labor, and ‘Alternate Careers’ in Digital Humanities Knowledge Work.” In Debates in the Digital Humanities, edited by Matthew K. Gold. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2012.

Working Group on Labor in Digital Libraries. “Research Agenda: Valuing Labor in Digital Libraries.” Digital Library Federation, 2018.

Select one interview to read from The Digital in the Humanities: A Special Interview Series in the Los Angeles Review of Books.

 

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Fall 2018 Digital Humanities Reading Group

The Boston College Libraries Digital Scholarship Group invites students, faculty, and staff at Boston College to join the Fall 2018 Digital Humanities Reading Group. We welcome participants at all levels; no previous experience with digital humanities is required.

If you are interested in participating, please complete the application form below. We will offer two sections of the reading group; please indicate your availability on the form. Applications will close May 31, 2018, and we will notify participants by early June.

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DH Reading Group Schedule

The Digital Scholarship Group has finalized the reading schedule for the Spring 2018 Digital Humanities reading group. All the readings are freely available online at the 2016 Debates in the Digital Humanities site if you navigate to Contents at the top of the page. We will also have copies of the text for everyone at the first meeting.

January 16:
From the Intro, Histories, Futures section:
Introduction: Digital Humanities: The Expanded Field
What’s Next: The Radical, Unrealized Potential of Digital Humanities
Father Busa’s Female Punch Card Operatives

January 30:
Methods:
Blunt Instrumentalism: On Tools and Methods
Digital Humanities Knowledge: Reflections on the Introductory Graduate Syllabus
Mid-Sized Digital Pedagogy

February 13:
Practices:
My Old Sweethearts: On Digitization and the Future of the Print Record
Lessons on Public Humanities from the Civic Sphere
Argument, Evidence, and the Limits of Digital Literary Studies

February 27:
Disciplines:
Digital History’s Perpetual Future Tense
Navigating the Global Digital Humanities: Insights from Black Feminism
Between Knowledge and Metaknowledge: Shifting Disciplinary Borders in Digital Humanities and Library and Information Studies

March 13:
Critics:
Dropping the Digital
How Not to Teach Digital Humanities
Hold on Loosely, or Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft on the Web

March 27:
Text Analysis:
Introduction
Do Digital Humanists Need to Understand Algorithms?
Humane Computation

If you’re interested in annotating the readings online, we’ve created a Hypothes.is group that you can join. No worries if you haven’t used Hypothes.is before—we can show you how!

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Spring 2018 Digital Humanities Reading Group

Note: The reading group is currently full. We will open registration again if there are cancellations.

The Digital Scholarship Group at Boston College Libraries is excited to announce the launch of a digital humanities reading group in Spring 2018. In accordance with our mission to foster a learning community around digital humanities and digital scholarship, we invite students, faculty, and staff at Boston College to join the reading group. We welcome participants at all levels; no previous experience with digital humanities is required.

For the Spring 2018 iteration, we are limiting the group size to ten participants. We will provide copies of the text, the 2016 edition of Debates in the Digital Humanities.

Please note that by submitting your registration, you are agreeing to:

  • Attend at least 5 of the 6 sessions
  • Co-lead discussion for one of these sessions

Meetings of the reading group will take place on the following dates:
January 16
January 30
February 13
February 27
March 13
March 27

All sessions will meet from 11:00–noon in O’Neill Library, room 413.